Travel Blogs from Ponda

... shoes off and hopped aboard. What an amazing moment in my life. I have never ridden an elephant and it was obviously one of my India goals. The best feeling was the way her body moved with each step. She was so calm and graceful I almost forgot that I ...

... nbsp; After that it was a surprisingly lovely drive on a straight road, through Old Goa towards the inland town of Ponda. (There were times when inhaling was treacherous, as we passed ancient trucks belching blue exhaust, but other than ...

... us - not me! [Jane: Thursday 15th saw us travelling by taxi with Peter and Margot to a spice farm just outside Ponda. We went a different route through Margao although it still looked like organised chaos there and passed some extremely colourful houses ...